US Detains Pinochet Daughter, She Seeks Political Asylum
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Washington (US):
US authorities late Wednesday sent the eldest daughter of Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet to an immigration detention site after preventing her from entering the United States, where she is seeking political asylum, officials said.
Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, 64, was charged on Monday in Chile with tax fraud linked to secret bank accounts that the ex-dictator kept in the United States.
Three other Pinochet children as well as their mother are also charged in the case, and all face prison sentences if found guilty.
The aging ex-dictator, now 90, and his family are believed to have had 27 mln usd in secret overseas bank accounts in the United States, Switzerland and Panama. Chilean police said Pinochet Hiriart left the country by car for Argentina on Sunday. She was also charged with using a fake passport.
She was stopped early Wednesday at Washington's Dulles airport upon arriving from Argentina and denied entry 'as a result of an arrest warrant issued by the Chilean government,' said US State Department spokesman Eric Watnik, according to Agence France-Presse.
Jan 25, 2006
AFX
Forbes
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Washington (US):
US authorities late Wednesday sent the eldest daughter of Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet to an immigration detention site after preventing her from entering the United States, where she is seeking political asylum, officials said.
Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, 64, was charged on Monday in Chile with tax fraud linked to secret bank accounts that the ex-dictator kept in the United States.
Three other Pinochet children as well as their mother are also charged in the case, and all face prison sentences if found guilty.
The aging ex-dictator, now 90, and his family are believed to have had 27 mln usd in secret overseas bank accounts in the United States, Switzerland and Panama. Chilean police said Pinochet Hiriart left the country by car for Argentina on Sunday. She was also charged with using a fake passport.
She was stopped early Wednesday at Washington's Dulles airport upon arriving from Argentina and denied entry 'as a result of an arrest warrant issued by the Chilean government,' said US State Department spokesman Eric Watnik, according to Agence France-Presse.
Jan 25, 2006
